Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
99:32 – 105:59… some big hits. Some of it's on film. I got upended and did a full 360. Wow. You might believe that. I don't know. Hasn't had many hits since then, though. Apex Mountain. I thought his quote in one of the things I read where he said, Iron Man, that was based on me. Shut up, dude. Yeah. Bracillo's really exploring the studio space with this one. Apex Mountain. Omar Epps, I'm going to say yes. Okay. Kind of peaks here. He has the higher learning. But then I think when he went on ER, that's when the wheels came off a little bit. But coming out of this movie, I was like, what's next for this dude? He's one of …
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It's great how long it took Bill to kind of warm up to what he really wanted to do this entire podcast. Sheffer, quote, I took some big hits. Some of it's on film. I got upended and did a full 360. Wow. You might believe that. I don't know. Hasn't had many hits since then, though. Apex Mountain. I thought his quote in one of the things I read where he said, Iron Man, that was based on me. Shut up, dude. Yeah. Bracillo's really exploring the studio space with this one. Apex Mountain. Omar Epps, I'm going to say yes. Okay. Kind of peaks here. He has the higher learning. But then I think when he went on ER, that's when the wheels came off a little bit. But coming out of this movie, I was like, what's next for this dude? He's one of the great sports movie actors we've ever had. I loved him back then. I really did. So did I. I think everybody loved him. I don't think there was an anti-Omar Epps opinion out there in the 90s. So this was a year after Juice. He's got higher learning coming up. Good run for him. Next one. Halle Berry hair extensions. I would say Apex only because she never did it again. Craig Sheffer, yes. Also the Apex Mountain for Craig Sheffer tall tales after a movie. Because I'm not sure I believe half of his quotes. Didn't Sheffer say that he got a letter from Bill Parcells about trying out for the Patriots after this movie came out? That they actually were looking for him to back up Bledsoe. I read that. No, it was true. Yeah. It was true. Yeah. You heard that, right? He had said, he goes, I'd love to have you around. He's like, I'd love to have you around the program. That's it. That's good. Christy Swanson, probably Buffy the Vampire Slayer for her. Ferris too. Yeah. The guy played Latimer. Absolutely. So here's a good one. I have two left. Here's an important one though. Was this the Apex Mountain for steroids? I thought that might come up. Because right after this. Why do you sound so sad? Vince McMahon has the steroids trial right after. Baseball has its reckoning coming with Bonds and McGuire in the late 90s. Yeah. This is still kind of the sweeping it under the rug steroids era. And it kind of peaks here. And in baseball, huge power surge in 93 in baseball. I don't know. I think you can make the case. It's wildly irresponsible. The whole movie says, use steroids. You'll be a great football player. And the second you stop, you're going to suck. So start again. I mean, it's an infomercial. It's steroids porn for two hours. I mean, it's terrible. So I actually think I agree. I don't think they've ever been. Maybe Drago taking them in Rocky IV. But that was a brief one scene. Yeah. But he was Russian. And Russians do bad stuff all the time. Yeah. So everybody knows that about Russia. Kyle. Kyle. Did you guys have a urine guy at Princeton? A swapper guy? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. His name was Kevin. And if you need a quick one, he was a hundred bucks. And he would come over and you'd be like, what are you doing down there, man? And he'd be like, don't worry about it. Taking the dope urine out with the good stuff in. It was great. After you're already hooked up to the urine machine. Yeah. Whatever that was. By the way, how old was that guy? 40? Who's that? Why is there a campus urine guy who's in his 40s? I had him down for that guy. That actor is in A Time to Kill. He plays one of Kiefer Sutherland's clan brothers. He is. He's in a clan enlisting the urine guy. That's a good one. Look up in A Time to Kill. That's a great one. I had that in Picking Nets, but we'll just cover it now. Apparently, it's an impossible medical procedure. Oh, is that right? They completely made that up. Yeah. There's no way you could actually inject urine into somebody's kidneys. It's actually impossible. Also, where do you get that cylinder that he puts in the toilet paper dispenser that just twists in magically out like that? It's like something you get in a James fucking Bond movie. Where do you get one of those things? There's no Amazon back then. That thing works out well. Latimer was great. Last Apex Mountain. Apex Mountain for people realizing that Michigan fucking sucks? Well, they did go on to share a title just a few years later, which is their only title in like 60 years of football. Brian Greasy. Because I feel like my generation, people are in on Michigan for a while. Like the people like me who didn't care about, you know, have a specific college football team that competed with them. And somewhere around the 90s, it turns. Mm-hmm. And I'm wondering if this was the start of when it turns. Because in the 80s, you had like the big chill. It's like, oh, cool. These people all went to Michigan. They really loved it. And it was like very favorable pop culture of Michigan coverage. Then here it turns. And this is where the real Michigan starts to come out. It's Lloyd Carr era Michigan. It's successful Michigan, I think. And they got the highest. They are kind of loathsome. And the way Tim Wayman never acknowledges Alvin Mack shit talking and completes the pass and takes the hit and probably goes number one in the draft. It is kind of loathsome. Not with that body. He's like a second rounder. A couple of picking nits. A couple of picking nits. I don't think any way Ray lets Darnell cut in on the dance with Halle Berry. I just don't see any scenario. Oh, come on. In any movie where that happens. Totally agree. Ever in any form of life. I don't know who cuts in anywhere. I mean, what are you, Errol Flynn? Okay. Like this whole cutting in. Is anyone cutting in? They weren't doing it when we were kids. And yet it's somehow, it hangs on in movie lore where they'll be like, how about you mind if you fuck off? And so there's that part of it. But what's less believable is that he would change the play for the guy that's now sleeping with his girlfriend. So as unbelievable as that part is, there's no way he'd be like, and by the way, it's like in 90 real minutes of time where you go earlier, I blew a block. Right. But you know what? Darnell, go in and win this one for us. Because for no apparent reason, I've completely decided to change my tune to you. Let's do this together. At halftime, he says, fuck Autumn and fuck you too. And he throws a drink in his face. That's 10 minutes prior to that. Yeah, right. They fought. They just fought. What's age the worst, Bill? What's age the worst? Ray Griffin's sweater that he's wearing in that party. That's a rough, rough. But not his khakis. But not his khakis. I had that sweater. More what's age the worst. So before the last kickoff, Darnell licks his hands. I mean, it's among the many. You mentioned some of the other egregious mistakes he makes. That one was weird. I didn't get that one. We know what I love, though, is the Newman gloves. Shout out to anybody around that era. And then I kept rocking the Newman gloves in softball, late 90s, early 2000s.
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